| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| fabric type |
PAE-G-6
|
| ware |
Glazed Wares |
| supposed site of production |
Paestum |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
light brown, granular; many fine white inclusions, some mica |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
7.5YR6/4 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
hard |
| porosity |
4%; void form: vughy; channel; void length: 0,04-1,6 |
| inclusions |
5%, length: 0,04-0,6 |
| sorting |
unsorted |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, angular, spherical, clear, 0,2 |
|
mica |
infrequent, angular, spherical, white, 0,02-0,04 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent, rounded, spherical, yellowish white, 0,04-0,08 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
riddled with, well rounded, spherical, white, 0,04-0,06 |
|
reddish inclusions |
infrequent, rounded, spherical - subspherical, rust coloured, 0,08-0,6 |
|
black inclusions |
frequent, angular, spherical - subspherical, black, 0,04-0,12 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| vessel form type |
Bowl |
| fragmentation |
body |
| surface description |
glazed
thick shining black glaze, metallic reflexions |
| |
Context Data
|
| site of discovery |
Velia
Late Archaic mudbrick houses beneath Insula II, trench 7/91 |
| registration code of context |
799.21/91 |
| registration code of object |
799.29/91 |
| | fabric description | | object data | | archaeometry | | |
| applied method for sample analysis |
thin section, heavy mineral analysis |
| analysis author |
Roman Sauer |
| petrographic mineralogical type |
RVG 07 |
| sample taken |
July 1996, by Verena Gassner, Institute of Classical Archaeology, Vienna University |
| sample no |
M 2/54 |
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